- Uptime in percentage claimed by Chek: 99.928
- Uptime in percentage claimed by some Microsoft ads: 99.999
- Billions of unique lines of C/C++ software code eligible for migration to the Itanium(R) 64-bit platform: 100
- Percentage of Kuro5hin readers who watch TV less than one hour a day or not at all: 65
- Sum SuSE is charging high school students for its Linux distribution: 0
- Number of Linux boxes SuSE is initially sponsoring for high schools in the U.S.: 2000
- Billions of dollars professional venture funds invested into new startups over the past two years: 160
- Millions of hits per day at the Apache.org Web site: 2
- Peak bandwidth demand on the Apache.org Web site in Mb/sec: 15
- Number of sites in millions found by Netcraft to be serving with Apache: 17.238
- Number of Jabber servers: 35,000
- Millions of wireless shoppers by 2004: 373
- Number of Americans in 70 now on the Wireless Web: 1
- Number of Americans in 3 expected on the Wireless Web by 2005: 1
- Percentage of Cingular's 20 million cell phone customers that access the Web: 50
- Range in $billions of spending on wireless ads by 2005: .89 to 6.1
Sources: 1, email from Chek; 2, Microsoft advertising; 3, Aberdeen Group, <http://www.migratec.com/>; 4, Kuro5hin.org; 5-6, SuSE; 7, Red Herring; 8, Brian Behlendorf, speaking to the Apache Software Foundation Meeting in April; 9-10, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com>'; 11, Jabber.org; 12-16, Graeme Thickens, reporting on what was said at an Industry Standard conference on Wireless. David Weinberger adds, "Attending the conference were between 200 and 300,000,000 people."
Ignore this:
http://www.suse.de/us/suse/news/PressReleases/Free_SuSE_Linux.html